Yvonne Hahn and Alejandro Schwarz have honored Bandoneon and guitar for an evening in the colors of Tango and Argentina.
The evening “Tango between memory and invention” has held all its artistic and friendly promises. Wednesday, July 9, the City of Culture welcomed a recital of the duo Yvonne Hahn and Alejandro Schwarz on the occasion of the National Day of Argentina. In front of a packed room, the two artists took place an undeniable know-how and also a perfect knowledge of the Argentine tradition of Tango.
For almost 90 minutes, the duo has performed about fifteen pieces of different eras and initiated the public to the developments of tango since the beginning of the twentieth century.
It was by first playing two compositions from Angel Villoldo that the duo introduced the first steps of Tango in Argentina. Then, several musical pieces made it possible to discover the tango between the Pampa, the Rio de la Plata and the suburbs of Buenos Aires where this musical style found its anchoring.
Several melancholy pieces and marked with nostalgia have made it possible to grasp this progression of tango and lead to the third part of the recital. The latter will be dedicated to the rise of tango between the 1930s and forty, this golden era which will see many orchestras and compositions that have become real classics.
This third sequence offered an authentic trip to the universe of tango in all its splendor. Likewise, the musicians took the time to present their respective instruments, notably the bandoneon whose origins are German and dated to 1830.
Now inseparable from tango, this instrument has supplanted the clarinet or the flute to impose itself and permanently mark this musical style. It is thus at random of migration, in the heart of the Argentinian melting pot that the bandoneon began his long reign.
The last part of the recital developed in two stages. The musicians first played a Milonga from Eduardo Arolas to allow the public to better feel the more lively rhythm of this musical genre which besides dancing differently. Then, the musical choice was completed by a palette of modern tango compositions with Astor Piazzolla and the artists of his generation.
As a counterpoint, a play by Alejandro Schwarz was on the program, a composition as subtle as a fugue and built on harmonies highlighting the guitar and complicity with Yvonne Hahn in the bandoneon.
The evening ended on “Adios Nonino”, a very well -known air composed by the essential Piazzolla. Very applauded, the musicians made a perfect copy that combined music and explanations. A very intense moment that this concert which allowed, to the delight of José Maria Arbilla, Ambassador of Argentina to Tunisia, to fly over a century of tango between memory and invention.
